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Yes it was unfortunate to see add-ons break when we moved from version 3.6, but it was for good, if you come back you will notice all of the add-ons updated and working, a big performance boost and more stability, and you can update effortless without breaking things, most of the add-on dev's have caught on with the release cycle, and those who didn't are in my opinion not worth it anyway, but take this with a grain of salt I mostly have Firebug, Yslow, Clear Cache and Colorzilla Color Picker installed.

I personally always have both Chrome and Firefox open, Chrome seems more responsive at times ( at least on my Macbook Pro ), but I can't get any productivity out of it (I'm a Web Dev) Firefox is a big winner for me here.

And one more thing about version numbers, chrome latest version is 22.0.1229.94
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Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
You certainly do pay for national parks. If you're a citizen, you pay for it in income taxes and any money paid to local businesses while shopping that they then owe in taxes. If you're not a citizen, you're still indirectly paying through taxes paid to businesses while you are on vacation. National parks are not all funded by the entrance fee, they're government-subsidized.

To answer the question, no it is not unethical to use free software for free when you cannot afford to donate. Canonical is not expecting you to pay for it, merely making it clearer that you are able to pay for it if you wish. This comes on the heels of the outcry over Amazon search being built-in, with people asking if Ubuntu is hurting for cash, why is it not easier to give them money?
MS unveils Digits wrist mounted hand-gesture sensor, for phones, games and more
You can select which areas of development your payment goes to.

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/how-mu...
Edis is offering KVM and Linux-VServer (different from OpenVZ), see https://www.edis.at/en/server/linux-vserver/ Cool thing about their Linux-VServer: access to 16/24 CPU cores even on the cheapest VPS plans... Downside: no command-line-based firewall config, it is done using the web interface (quite annoying): http://www.edis.at/en/server/overview/info/
Me too. Including myself.
I only use nvidia cards (with the proprietary drivers) because they were the only ones I could find with decent framerates playing something like Minecraft at 1080p resolution.

Do the free ATI drivers get 60fps (or even 30fps @ 1080p resolution) for most full screen games? If so, could you tell me which model of card you are achieving this with?
"Paying before you can actually get the OS does not make much sense for new users."

It does make sense for Windows and OS X users :)
I'd say I'm living from paycheck to paycheck.... "Except I'm not getting a paycheck!"

http://uptownalmanac.com/2012/10/nerds-gone-wild-day-san-fra...
protected void refreshLayout() {
// We are forcing scroll bar refreshing too
composite.getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().pack(true);
composite.getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().getParent().layout();
}
Lawyer recovers from depression and disgrace — thanks to a good night’s sleep
Totally, and there was a familiar line, around tech circles, it goes like this "Friends don't let friends work at Zynga".

And let's not forget.

“I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues,” -Mark Pincus

It's unfortunate the empolyees were not paying attention to what their CEO and Company was saying and doing.
A supportive working wife, nothing beats that :)
Also, there is a serious issue with the security of radio tags in general as they are so susceptible to cloning and spoofing - http://cq.cx/proxmark3.pl
I remember when it was a big deal on AIM and other IM services. You'd get a message from an official sounding screen name asking you to verify your password.

These types of attacks are why you typically see messages like "we will never ask for your personal information" from service providers.
This whole q&a is a waste fluff piece. Don't bother to read it.
no. and everyone knows why. Please stop flaming IE, its gotten old.
How oh how are you more productive in Firefox than Chrome as a web dev? (Despite my incredulity, I'm serious) I'm a web dev and I'd scream at you long before I let you replace my WebKit inspector even with some of the newer Firefox tools.
I'm not sure if very tiny and close objects like this one are something anyone has focused on. At the moment, the MSL team has so many very well trained eyeballs that they don't need much automation of relatively high level tasks like this one. After the initial 90 days, the team will shrink, and automation will be more important.

Detecting objects in medium to long range Mars rover imagery is a problem that has received a lot of attention, including systems that run on board the rover.

The people who have pushed this the farthest are here:

http://aegis.jpl.nasa.gov/

Just a recognition algorithm is not enough. You also need to integrate prioritization, planning (is it OK to pivot the camera to point in that direction, do we have enough room to store the data, ...), and acquisition to have a system that actually gathers quality data without sacrificing other mission objectives. The described algorithm has been run on Opportunity.

The selling point for on board automation in this context is light time. By the time you send the images back, analyze them, and upload a new command sequence to take the data, you would have driven past the interesting rock. So you have to do some things on board. Limited bandwidth also plays a role.
Looking for hints of discrete patterns in our universe? Awesome, go ahead.

If you want to make a case of wheter we are in a simulation or not though, you are not in the domains of science anymore.
Commenter is right. It's almost foolish to find this heartbreaking. It could be anger, disgust (though it's not necessary they are always mutually exclusive) but it can certainly not be heartbreaking. Not in this case.

It wasn't like Zyanga kept them working while they were starving and kept them lured all along that they will be fed once Zynga stock booms up.

They always had the chance to jump ship. Esp. with many small/big ships steadily floating around ready to lift them aboard. It was a gamble for the extra cash (read bonanza) and they lost (just the bonanza).
Of course you're right overall, but if you're paying $12K/year in rent for one room in a shared apartment that still leaves only $250/month for all your other expenses, and I'm not convinced it's workable at that extreme.
True. Getting it in writing is not really enough if your employer is a snake.

I know an employee #3 at a successful startup who was fired two weeks before he would have vested. He got his due but only after legal action.
Since much of my work involves audio and video, practically everything I do can be thought of in mathematical terms. I'm not explicitly writing a function that says "integrate this" or "differentiate that" (except for the Accumulator and Differentiator plugins in my automation logic system[0]). I do write things, both for fun and profit, that have patterns similar to integration and differentiation.

Related to what I said in another comment[1], there's rarely a binary influence from my (admittedly very limited) mathematical and theoretical background, where a decision would go one way with it and another without. Rather, my understanding of calculus and probability shapes the way I think about and approach problems.

For example, when I see a problem that looks like one of gathering data and accumulating a result, I can recognize that it looks similar to a numeric integral, and apply what I know about integration to solving the problem. Integrals and derivatives are also constantly in my mind when I think about the physics of the world around me.

Probability, especially Bayesian reasoning, also influence the way I perceive and approach problems, both in software and in reality. Consciously thinking about prior expectation combined with prior confidence, even if I'm not thinking in numeric terms, helps me to understand how my mind works, know how to communicate new, unintuitive ideas to others, and form more concrete thoughts about my environment.

In summary, a very rudimentary understanding of calculus and probability theory are necessary to understand and reason about (i.e. predict) the physical world. Moreover, I have a general desire to learn all that I can and integrate it into a web of concepts, which I reason about as a combination of directed and undirected graphs, where concepts are vertices, relations between concepts are undirected edges, and influencing concepts and prerequisite knowledge are directed edges.

[0] http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/docs/palace/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630006
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It's not impossible in C.
It's impossible statically.

There is nothing that stops you from JIT'ing C/C++.
LLVM includes a JIT that functions just fine on C/C++ programs.
That page refers to it as "new Windows UI", not simply "Windows UI". Sorry to nitpick, but there's enough ambiguity around the naming for the new/modern/metro/Windows 8 UI already.
This is radical. We will end up all blind this way. Because it will be impossible to determine the threshold scenario when to pull the trigger.
But in line with South Bay. As long as the work is near Caltrain/BART lines, one doesn't really have to live in San Francisco unless they really want to pay premium for the privilege.
There are many reasons why you would want a maximal matching. In my case I was working on a distributed system prototype that needed to match block requests my users to cache servers. This is a maximal matching from cache servers who have these blocks available to users requesting blocks.
Meh, GCC can do the interchange as well, it just isn't on by default.
In light of this (and the fact that many others are doing the same), I don't think you can interpret your results as being truly representative of the industry, cpercival, though I do look forward to reading your final summary.
Joshua left Engadget?! I just learned this. Wow. I guess I should pay more attention. I look at Engadget almost daily. Their article quality doesn't seem to have suffered.
I am forever indebted to Amazon.

Without my Kindle, my fortune of being born in the digital age may have prevented me from recognizing the value in buying a printed book. Furthermore, I was able to ebay it for cost (plus shipping!) thereby transforming the invaluable lesson into a gift.
This reminds me the story of forgotten Twitter founder Noah Glass and the way affairs were handled that time http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-cofounder-noah-glass-.... It's not exactly the same situation but it's also about not giving someone the due he deserved.
Stress Reactivity after Reading Negative News
Not sure if the parent comment is tongue in cheek but I genuinely wonder this myself. I don't know that this is the answer but San Francisco seems to be committed to offering lower income earners more affordable housing through rent control. Since housing is often the biggest expense this may explain why a barista making $25k and a developer making $80k may live in the same city, happily.

Broader economic arguments aside, I think this diversity is a good outcome and makes urban living more interesting.
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Stock price is the price of the last share sold, not every share. If someone tried to raid Zynga for its cash, buying up all the shares, they would buy all the shares offered at $2.35, then all the shares offered at $2.45, ... until they end up paying $3 or $5 or $100 for the 50% ownership they need to take over the company and shut it down. The total cost of the company would be more than (last share sale price) * (# of shares)
This is accounting trickery. They chose to write down the OMGPOP acquisition all at once instead of depreciating that over a few years, same way Microsoft "lost money" by choosing to write down goodwill of aQuantive all at once. The cash flow statements reflect the picture better than income statement.
Guessing here but I think they have different SLAs. Microsoft probably spends more time testing and releasing something akin to the chrome stable release channel.
I find this to be a fascinating idea. They don't seem to limit the number of machines, so I suppose you could send them a couple hundred.

One of the things I've discovered using a USB stick as a 'boot disk' on a couple of embedded ARM systems is that they fry pretty quickly. I was running a re-purposed Chumby with Ubuntu and a regular 'apt-get update/upgrade' schedule. After about 3 months the USB stick was reporting it had 6GB of space (down from 8), after 4 months when my system complained it was out of disk space it was reporting a total of 4.6GB. Now I also did stuff like build things with the armel GCC compiler so there was 'file churn' of the "write a bunch of .o files, then link them" variety. But still, dead in 4 months wasn't very impressive. My Pandaboard (same sort of deal) has been going 6 months now on an 8GB SD card which is still reporting 8GB of total space available.
Short movie about cyborgs running amok in Bangkok’s red light district
Marc Pincus already sold enough shares to get his FU money.
Wine Site built in Rails
Hi all,
I've just launched my first web app, it's far from finished, plenty of little bugs and all but as they say 'if you're not embarrassed by 1.0 then you didn't launched early enough'. Anyway I'd love some feedback, its a wine review and discovery app, built using rails.
Intro to Lifecycle Emails - guest post by Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
Amazon affiliate links somehow floating through the abyss and still pulling in pennies.
Airbnb. High value customers and very little overhead on my part. Not totally passive, I guess, but takes up very little time and makes us a decent bit of money on the side.
I dont want to use facebook. I need this for some intranet purpose
I wouldn't say the person in you example is unable to afford it, $0 disposable income just means you've chosen to spend all your money in other ways or to save it. So I don't think it's related to the question I was responding to.
How do I contribute while discouraging Unity? Doubtless they will interpret "Make the desktop more amazing" as an encouragement rather than the opposite.
>the coal miner is working in a coal mine because he did not get a superior education

Now, this is heartbreaking. Given the fact that most probably not having superior education (or education at all) didn't have anything to do with neglecting studies but simply being born to poor parents.

>why is a ditch digger better or worse than a computer programmer?

It's the society we live in. There are various places on this planet where you are an untouchable by caste the caste you were born in leave alone money and job.
Planscope (https://planscope.io)
- predictable, more-growth-than-churn SaaS revenue

Compared to my book, which fizzles out when I'm not actively marketing it, building a B2B subscription product is the best, most turnkey income source I've ever had.
It sounds like OSS panhandling.
I've passed up the 4S, the 5, and the S3 just so I can let my contract run out in December and not have to deal with them anymore. What I wouldn't give for some real competition in the mobile provider space.
[Related]Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what? (1 month ago)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
Facebook was definitely my biggest earner until they decided to crack down on everything at the end of last year and basically screwed everyone over.

It's the same deal for SEO, used to be a easy way to promote Adsense, CPA offers and what not, but the penguin change just makes it harder and harder to rank for keywords.

2012 has been definitely a slow year for Internet marketing, the worst I've faced since I started in 2006.
While this is obviously intended to be humorous, I don't really care for the way it attacks the users of the language in such a mocking, patronising manner.

Criticizing languages/paradigms is fine (the resulting flame-wars add a great deal of humour and interest to the world of programming) - but to caricaturize users of different languages as people suffering from certain negative traits is just ugly and leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth reading this.

I for one would not want anything further to do with this author or site.
Real Estate, multi-family rentals.
Ubuntu has decided to closely track Firefox releases because Mozilla doesn't provide security updates for older Firefox versions. I'm not sure what other software receives major version updates within the lifetime of an Ubuntu release (Chromium?), but it's not the norm.

Debian hasn't adapted this policy yet; they still declare a version of Firefox stable and backport patches to it. They've had to switch the name and logos from Firefox to Iceweasel because Mozilla does not allow anyone to independently provide updates and still use the Firefox trademark.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSu...

http://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
Where is the mention of Pincus or Zynga? I couldn't find it.
What it means to be a programmer
The truth behind all of those Project Managers
Srikumar K.S's jexpr is an experimental (and it seems abandoned) attempt at doing just this:

http://srikumarks.github.com/jexpr/

{do: [
{fetchURL: "http://some.data.source/",
timeout: 30.0,
onfail: {raiseError: "URL not reachable"}},
{fork: [
{displayInElement: "element_id"},
{cacheInLocalStorage: "prefix"}
]}]}

more here:

http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/15/j-expressions/

http://srikumarks.github.com/gyan/2012/04/14/creating-dsls-i...
It has to bee a taste thing, I'm not that sold on the new firefox tools either, I've even submitted some bugs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789675] but firebug is still deep in my work habits, I did see the post about chrome tools, I must admit it does look more advanced, anyway if I could change the font, background and foreground colors I would think of moving to chrome to do my dev work, I'm not feeling the red text on the styles attributes, a green/blue combination like firebug looks better.

Yes I just admitted chrome dev tools are better.
I have two sites that I built 3 years ago that still rank well for a few valuable keywords. Each site has hundreds of pages of content but one page on each site is number 1 on Google for keywords that pay $5-10 per click. Not a lot of traffic, but enough for a few hundred a month from adsense and affiliate links.
This might not be the kind of answer you're looking for, but the best way to truly passively increase your wealth is to take care of your personal finances (e.g. pay off your student loans, pay off your credit card balance, invest in a lifecycle fund, see if your employer offers a 401(k))

I personally really liked the book I Will Teach You To Be Rich -- it has a poor name but it's dense with incredibly practical advice particularly for people coming right out of college suddenly making an income.
100% spot on. Yah, super sux that (as usual) the top execs ride on the backs of everyone else, cash out, and buy fat crib in Pac Heights. But then again, what do you expect when the ceo is so blatant about the culture there? That sentence says it all, anyone can see it.

So, sorry folks u got screwed, but it's, literally a house of cards. Everyone early and vc that put their money in, I'd a happy camper..
Halloweenbingocards.net will probably hit about $6k this October (BCC will hit maybe $10k). Not bad for $250 paid in like 2009 or so.

I did a course on lifecycle emails for SaaS businesses recently. That did pretty well - a few hundred sales.
I sell posters of a vim cheat sheet I designed (see my profile for link). I ship my inventory to a 3rd-party fulfillment provider who plugs in to Shopify with a custom app, so all I have to do is re-print when the inventory runs out and handle the occasional customer service problem. Digital downloads are a total freebie.
I left because they went on a version roller coaster which was confusing, that broke plugins like oh Quake which was fun but important plugins in addition to that.

Oh, and JavaScript was faster in Chrome, FF did improve JS speed though.
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Having any short-term renter increases risk versus a long-term renter versus an owner. That's just the nature of the industry.

My point is that as a tenant in a building with an AirBnB host, I have absolutely zero guarantees about what kind of tenants AirBnB hosts take on. Maybe some need the money and are willing to take on people with no reputation scores? I'm willing to trust my building management to take responsibility for screening tenants because if they fail I can sue them and I know they can pay because they are insured.

That's the point you keep dancing around. AirBnB's reputation system might be great. That's irrelevant to me as a tenant in the same building. I don't get to see or have any control over the reputations scores of the people AirBnB hosts in my building take on. The AirBnB host exposes me to a level of risk, he is in total control over that level of risk, and he doesn't carry insurance against that risk. That is a harm to me.
>> If you use Chrome, however, you cannot knock them for iterating more quickly; Chrome's in the same boat.

My Chrome plugins don't break. They can change the version every day for all I care just don't break my plugins, extensions.
It looks great. How do you market your webapp?
That is completely missing the Bayesian worldview, which says you should assign a distribution to the probabilities. A uniform distribution of probabilities, 0-100%, is not perfect, captures the uncertainty better than a point distribution at 50%.

I am holding a pencil right now. Is the eraser at a higher altidude than the tip? Maybe, maybe not. Is that 50/50? Would you be willing to make a bet from me at 1:1 odds, that the the answer is yes?
Cool!

We have a good understanding of the nginx internals - the Tengine web server maintained by us is an example (http://tengine.taobao.org/ http://github.com/taobao/tengine) We also want to ask how to contribute and look forward to your design doc :)
I really like this approach.

I'm quite sure I know what work is on the horizon and that it won't be very challenging and I can't see a situation where that might change either. It's just the nature of their business.

Good point about keeping it positive, I will remember that.
>> Yes I just admitted chrome dev tools are better.

Even when I used FF and as much as I liked Firebug the Chrome Dev Tools are better for me as well.
RockMelt Launches Social News Reader for iPad
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>>Really, try ditch digging for a year, and then we'll talk.

What's that? Is it like "First perform at the Opera House and then we'll talk Mozart"?

Most of the times they do not have same desires. For whatever reasons. Be it the immediate need to support family or the ambition the fire of desire having been lost over the years or fight and struggle to look for a stable mean to live. Or maybe the kind of education/upbringing he received. Or the company he grew up with (well, this is very important). This is also has a lot to do with the genes you were born with.

This is the nature of a capitalist society and other ones are even worse. In a capitalist people are supposed to be of uneven means so they are. In a society like communist societies people are not supposed to be of uneven means (in the usual sense) and still they are and the gap is a lot wider than that in the former society.
Rockmelt Launches A Sick Social Reader on iPad
I try almost every FF release dude, and I am still disappointed, it almost seems like, nah.
You're probably right. I just don't like to leave without considering all the options first.